The phrase "startling truth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a truth that is surprising or unexpected. Example: The documentary revealed a startling truth about the effects of climate change on the polar ice caps.
He will flatly declare a startling truth ("I'm more talented than most people"), then look surprised when it startles.
Only when Ms. Medlock, 49, sought a second opinion did she learn a startling truth: MammoSite is still highly experimental.
In the end it is a David and Goliath story, as a surprising hero emerges to untangle the web and discover the startling truth.
An exercise on what to do when the driver of a vehicle is shot dead revealed a startling truth — most Malian soldiers did not know how to drive.
But the intense interest in this big, rigorous clinical trial masked a startling truth about heart research: Many studies are never published, their findings consigned to oblivion.
He, in reply, unveils a still startling truth: "There's nothing makes us feel so much alive as to see others die".
It never insults the reader's intelligence by pretending that it has new, startling truths to impart.
They include his younger brother, played by Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel), who is struggling to deal with the trauma of the conflict, and Molina's Foreign Office official who reveals some startling truths about the outbreak of the war.
"This fabulously enjoyable read will keep you entertained and rooting for the protagonist until the very end, while delivering startling truths about cricket and about Sri Lanka," said chair Margaret Busby.
There's no reason to think he isn't right now about how timeboxes, dynamic query sliders and similar graphical interfaces will one day let us discover startling truths -- much as Galileo shook up the 17th century when his telescope revealed craters on the moon and led to the discovery of galaxies far, far away.
Readers opened their Aug. 2, 1954, issue to a sprawling feature titled "Goodby to Some Old Baseball Ideas," with Rickey standing professorially at a faux blackboard, pointing at his heretofore secret equation, which, he wrote, "reveals some new and startling truths about the nature of the game".
